Skilled Care

The Morrison Community Hospital Skilled Care offers therapies to individuals needing physical therapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy. Inpatient skilled care is located on the second floor of the hospital. Our rehabilitation team is highly regarded and referred to by many area physicians and facilities.

Physical Therapy

Rehabilitation for returning to work, sports, or other usual activities

Special programs for children with disabilities and motor development disorders

Speech TherapyAll ages and medical diagnoses are included in our scope of care, such as autism, aphasia, apraxia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, strokes, difficulties arising from radiation therapy, surgeries, and head injury, among others.

Language therapy for challenges with expressing oneself verbally and in writing as well as understanding information one hears or sees/reads.

Why Choose Us?“We feel that our rehabilitation department is able to offer more intensive inpatient rehabilitation than most nursing homes because we have licensed therapists. This allows us to spend more time with our patients and allocate more resources. Also, our average inpatient length of stay time is half of what a patient would average at a nursing home based skilled care unit. This means we can get a patient healthier and back home quicker.” – Peter Becerra

Skilled patients are seen six days a week, Monday through Saturday. We have licensed therapists on the premises during regular business hours and therapy is provided by the licensed staff, rather than on-the-job trained individuals. Joy Johnson, Occupational Therapist, specializes in upper extremity rehabilitation, wheelchair prescription, and rehabilitation of activities of daily living. She often visits the patients’ home prior to their discharge and makes a functional assessment of any modifications or adaptations needed for safety and functionality.

What type of credentials do you or your staff have?Our Director of Rehabilitation, Peter Becerra, holds a doctoral degree in physical therapy and is a certified orthopedic rehabilitation specialist by the American P.T. Association board of specialties. In addition, he is a credentialed clinical instructor, training physical therapy students from St. Ambrose University, Midwestern University and Blackhawk College.